how feasible is compliance to priority A and AA W3c content guidelines?

[adrianfinn]

hi...

we're considering CMS systems for a brief to design a portal / community site that must 'be an exemplary model of web accessibility' and '....meet the Priority A and AA guidelines of the W3C web content accessibility guidelines'

a CMS system is preffered for this project to keep development costs down but can Joomla with careful use of templates, etc meet the required guidelines or should we be looking at another system?


thanks

[daestrom]

Hi Adrian,

You should read the Accessibility Statement  http://help.joomla.org/content/view/805/125/ to give you some background.

A lot of the accessibility requirements can be met by having an accessible template.

Joomla! will fail priority A and AA unless you can hack some of the core files to your requirements.  A good start would be to download the accessible version of Joomla http://forge.joomla.org/sf/projects/accessible_joomla. But even this doesn't go far enough to be A or AA.

Your best bet would be to wait for the next version of Joomla! 1.5 which as far as I know will use templates to override the default inaccessible core files.